I didn’t care about the drownings. I just wanted a refuge and the mill was the only place in this tiny, suffocating village where I could find it.
The hour is come but the man is not.
Silence descended on the group who had been deep in discussion a moment prior. They stared at one another, light from the central fire flickering in their wide open eyes, pretending they didn’t hear the misty words no one in the room had spoken.
